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extent of its buildings. A number of the chief 

 Factors and Traders meet here every summer, 

 and a council is held for the management of 

 the Northern Factory ; while another is also 

 annually held at Moose, in St. James's Bay, 

 for the direction of the Southern Factory. This 

 division of the Company's territory, comprises 

 the whole of the country, from the furthest 

 known point to the north to the boundary line 

 of the United States, and from the waters of 

 the Pacific to those of the Atlantic. In carrying 

 into effect the moral improvement of the coun- 

 try, which has long been contemplated, it 

 would be very desirable that schools should be 

 established at the Company's chief depots ; 

 where it is presumed provisions might be ob- 

 tained, for the support at least of a limited 

 number of the half-caste children. And the 

 most beneficial results might follow the regular 

 performance of divine worship on the Sabbath, 

 by a Clergyman, throughout the summer months 

 at least, in a building erected and appropriated 

 as a chapel. These are arrangements, which 

 every benevolent mind, truly desirous of pro- 

 moting the best interests of the country, where 

 the progress of moral and religious instruction 

 would be but slow, would rejoice to see prac- 

 tically entered upion. 



